A contract killer receives a letter from an old friend. Though their friendship has strained, they still do business. They meet and the killer is offered a contract and takes it. He'll watch a woman and her two young daughters and wait for further instructions. Part of him enjoys the hunt, but another part, an inner beast he can no longer control, enjoys the kill. He travels to rural Tennessee where he begins his vigil. When he sees the woman and her daughters, he's reminded of his estranged daughter and the two granddaughters he's never seen. The woman and her girls live in a secluded...

Volume 1 of 2. Hitler and Machiavelli each have their own hells. Hitler's hell is the ruins of Berlin...the result of his grandiose plan. He sees the rubble and thinks about what might have been... Machiavelli's hell is to wander through history where he meets its greatest men. He talks to those who achieved the power he so much wanted to understand and influence during his own lifetime, and asks why they did they things they did...

Volume 2 of 2. Hitler and Machiavelli each have their own hells. Hitler's hell is the ruins of Berlin...the result of his grandiose plan. He sees the rubble and thinks about what might have been... Machiavelli's hell is to wander through history where he meets its greatest men. He talks to those who achieved the power he so much wanted to understand and influence during his own lifetime, and asks why they did they things they did...